dowager

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Fellow Downton star Samantha Bond says fledgling performers in the series sometimes found it hard to distinguish between Dame Maggie and the acid-tongued dowager countess she portrayed.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2024

Previous generations freely shared lilac slips with friends and neighbors, producing purple threads of sweetly scented dowager shrubs up and down the street.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2024

Following Gaozong’s death in 683, Wu ruled as empress dowager and regent for her son, though she held all the real power of the state.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Tasked with saying lines like, "We shall use what I believe is called 'cancel culture,'" Tracy wears her out-of-touch disdain for Meghan like a dowager countess's prized stole.

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2021

Is she really going to devote fifty hours of her life to a crotchety dowager in a drafty attic, going through boxes filled with moths and dust mites and who knows what else?

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline